The Cameo Characters Are the Only Special Thing about Onimusha Soul

The other side of the game involves building a squad through the collection of character cards. You start with just your chosen starting hero, but soon, by doing base quests, you are able to put together a full squad of five. At this point you can begin playing the story mode.

In the story mode, you watch various characters skits, find treasure, get in fights, and win rewards—like buildings, resources, items, and cameo characters. Of course, like many similar social games, you can only do so many quests at a time before you need to start paying.

The battle system is almost non-existent and is based entirely on your battle preparation. You set up a team line-up before you start questing, and then your characters and the enemies take turns attacking each other until one or the other runs out of HP. You can strengthen your characters outside of battle by sacrificing other character cards to level them up.

There are also bosses that the whole community takes on and a PVP mode where your squad faces off against another player’s in a series of one-on-one matches where the best of five wins.